Textual Amendments
F1Words in cross-heading preceding s. 18 omitted (18.1.2010) by virtue of The Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/22), arts. 1(1), 5(1), Sch. 2 para. 67
(1)The Data Protection Commissioner shall be known instead as the Information Commissioner.
F3(2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(3)In this Act—
(a)the Information Commissioner is referred to as “the Commissioner”, F4. . .
F4(b). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(4)Schedule 2 (which makes provision consequential on subsections (1) and (2) and amendments of the M1Data Protection Act 1998 relating to the extension by this Act of the functions of the Commissioner and the Tribunal) has effect.
F5(5). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
F5(6). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
F5(7). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Textual Amendments
F2Words in s. 18 heading omitted (18.1.2010) by virtue of The Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/22), arts. 1(1), 5(1), Sch. 2 para. 68(a)
F3S. 18(2) omitted (18.1.2010) by virtue of The Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/22), arts. 1(1), 5(1), Sch. 2 para. 68(b)
F4S. 18(3)(b) and preceding word omitted (18.1.2010) by virtue of The Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/22), arts. 1(1), 5(1), Sch. 2 para. 68(c)
F5S. 18(5)-(7) repealed (16.3.2015) by Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (c. 9), ss. 105(5), 120, Sch. 10 Pt. 8 (with s. 97); S.I. 2015/587, art. 2(a)(c)
Commencement Information
I1S. 18 wholly in force at 1.1.2005; s. 18(4) in force for certain purposes at Royal Assent, see s. 87(1)(i); s. 18(1) wholly in force and s. 18(4) in force for certain further purposes at 30.1.2001, see s. 87(2)(a)(c); s. 18(2)(3)(5)-(7) in force and s. 18(4) in force for certain further purposes at 14.5.2001 by S.I. 2001/1637, art. 2(a)(b); s. 18 otherwise in force at 1.1.2005 by S.I. 2004/3122, art. 2
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